<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear friends,<div><br></div><div>For those of you who don’t follow trade policy, I thought you might be interested in an opinion piece in CircleID that came out today. In it I make the argument that trade policy might just be the best hope of the open Internet and that it could profoundly help to narrow the digital divide.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope you find it of interest</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><h3 style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.692em; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131202_learning_to_love_the_wto_how_trade_policy_can_save_open_internet/" class="" style="outline: none; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Learning to Love the WTO: How Trade Policy Can Save Open Internet - and Bridge the Digital Divide</a></h3><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131202_learning_to_love_the_wto_how_trade_policy_can_save_open_internet/" target="_blank">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131202_learning_to_love_the_wto_how_trade_policy_can_save_open_internet/</a></div><div><br></div><div class="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div></div></body></html>